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FIBA was founded in Geneva in 1932 by the basketball federations of eight nations: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, and Switzerland. The sport had been officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee just two years before the federation's creation.
On the 7th of April 1989, FIBA member nations voted 56 to 13 in Munich to permit NBA players in international events. The decision was partly motivated by competition from the Goodwill Games, which was also seeking to attract NBA players and was rivaling the Olympics at the time.
FIBA is headquartered in Mies, Switzerland. The building is called the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball, named after the Secretary-General who served from 2003 until his death. FIBA previously had offices in Munich and Geneva before settling in Mies for its 81st anniversary in 2013.
FIBA has 212 national member federations, organized across five regional zones: Africa (54 members), Americas (42), Asia (44), Europe (49), and Oceania (22). This structure was formalized under a governance framework approved at the 2014 FIBA Extraordinary Congress in Istanbul.
In February 2022, FIBA provisionally suspended Russia and Belarus from all international competitions and from hosting any FIBA events, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. No fixed end date was set for the suspension.
The Naismith Trophy is the prize awarded to the winner of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. It is named in honor of James Naismith, the Canadian-American creator of basketball, who was born in 1861. During the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, FIBA named Naismith as its Honorary President.